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Dorset given legal green light to re-open road at risk of landslips

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Andrew Forster
29 May 2015
 

Dorset County Council is to re-open a busy road closed last April because of a landslide risk after legal advice that the council will not be liable if a fatal accident occurs. 

Dorset closed the C13 through the village of Melbury Abbas because of fears about landslides on the steep slopes bordering the road through Dinah’s Hollow. Consultants Brody Forbes and Parsons Brinckerhoff advised that there was a risk of a landslide burying a small vehicle. In 2012, two people died when...

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